UT football: Mike Davis still questionable for OU

AUSTIN — Mike Davis, the freshman wide receiver named by Texas coaches as one of the three leading playmakers on the Longhorns offense, remains questionable for Saturday’s game against Oklahoma with a knee injury.

UT coach Mack Brown declined to comment Wednesday on whether or not Davis is practicing this week, saying he “could get in trouble” if he talked about a player’s injury status. Without Davis, who caught 16 passes for 183 yards and two touchdowns in a 2&frac12;-game span before suffering a knee injury last week against UCLA, the Longhorns offense could find plenty of trouble of its own against the Sooners.

In other news:

Brown said D.J. Monroe is making solid progress settling in as a running back this week, but that Fozzy Whittaker will start in Dallas. Monroe, who rushed seven times for 51 yards against UCLA, is expected to be the first tailback off the bench.

Aaron Williams will once again be UT’s top punt returner against OU, one week after Curtis Brown made the costly mistake of trying to field a punt inside his own 5 and then fumbling the ball away. Mack Brown said he wants Curtis Brown to build his confidence back up before putting him on punt returns in a game again.

As for the campus shooting that closed the university Tuesday, Mack Brown said he and his staff spent several hours of the “difficult and stressful day” tracking down his players, then assuring their families they were OK.

The team practiced as scheduled Tuesday afternoon, although they moved the workout indoors just to put the players’ minds at ease, Brown said.

For the first half-hour after word of the shooting at Perry-Castaneda Library spread, Brown was trying to get in touch with his own daughter, Barbara, who works at the architecture school near the library. As it turned out, his daughter didn’t immediately return his calls because she was at the dentist.